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Programming WCF Services
Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft's new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Relentlessly practical, the book delivers insight, not documentation, to teach developers what they need to know to build the next generati...more
Paperback, 640 pages
Published
February 27th 2007
by O'Reilly Media
(first published February 20th 2007)
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Reading it for the second time now; I should have taken the certification exam while I had a WCF project...
Yes, Lowy is a little too passionate about WCF for my taste ("every method should be a service") - but that's what I like about the book; it has an attitude, and a sensible one as it turns out looking back at some experience of my own. On the other hand, wading through the code samples - especially the base classes and helpers the author has written - are just tiring, especially when readin...more
Yes, Lowy is a little too passionate about WCF for my taste ("every method should be a service") - but that's what I like about the book; it has an attitude, and a sensible one as it turns out looking back at some experience of my own. On the other hand, wading through the code samples - especially the base classes and helpers the author has written - are just tiring, especially when readin...more
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I really don't like the dry way of explaining the subject of this book. WCF (or any programming topic) is dull as it is so why make it worse by the approach of listing facts and have no natural flow of the topic which is complicated even for a senior developer like me.
This is just listing of facts about WCF which is great but that's no way to learn something.
There's no guidance from the author on how to execute a certain example. T...more
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I really don't like the dry way of explaining the subject of this book. WCF (or any programming topic) is dull as it is so why make it worse by the approach of listing facts and have no natural flow of the topic which is complicated even for a senior developer like me.
This is just listing of facts about WCF which is great but that's no way to learn something.
There's no guidance from the author on how to execute a certain example. T...more
This book was great for learning transactions and the security chapter was thorough yet simplified enough to be easily understood. However, it can be dry at times and he spent a lot of time pushing his extended WCF library.
Gave me the information I needed on WCF. Good guidance for best practices in the WCF Coding Convention appendix. The declarative security portion was good stuff.
Useful, but not inspiring. I didn't like the author's "I'm the authority, so here's how you should do it" tone. Also glad I didn't pay for the book, as it has bunches of method signatures and enum's defined straight out of the implementation. These are repeats of the .NET Framework documentation and the actual WCF class library metadata....more
Useful, but not inspiring. I didn't like the author's "I'm the authority, so here's how you should do it" tone. Also glad I didn't pay for the book, as it has bunches of method signatures and enum's defined straight out of the implementation. These are repeats of the .NET Framework documentation and the actual WCF class library metadata....more
Jun 15, 2011
Brian
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Pretty good so far. I needed a primer that will show how to use WCF in different applications and this book provides a no nonsense description of the nuts and bolts.
Hard to read, good as reference but not to learn from
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I went as long as I could without buying a WCF book, but after burning a few days on WCF minutae that I couldn't resolve via the web I broke down and bought this book.
The TOC looks promising, will see how it turns out in practice.
Bad omen in foreword: "Every .NET program should use WCF". Huh? Er, no.
The TOC looks promising, will see how it turns out in practice.
Bad omen in foreword: "Every .NET program should use WCF". Huh? Er, no.
Very interesting book for Microsoft nerds like me. I wonder when I will get to read a 'fun' book again. Commuting door to door in my car has really cut down on my reading time:(
The book covers all the necessary topics, and in a very understandable and approachable way.
The only book you need to have on your bookshelfd
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